Ep. 1823 - Obama Wants Your Mom To Take More Tylenol
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As we look ahead to the midterms, two new polls show that the Democratic Party is the weakest it has been since the polling began. Which party has a better plan? Which party is more likely to win the mid-terms?
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A bit of bright news heading into your weekend, and as we look ahead to the midterms,
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two new polls show that the Democrat Party is the weakest that it has been
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since this polling, at least, began. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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Welcome back to the show. We have more information on the shooter at that ice facility in Dallas,
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He was the president a little while ago. Barack Obama comes out, and he's upset because in Republican
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states, they're drawing up congressional districts in ways the Democrats don't like. Far less egregious
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ways, by the way, than the Democrats are doing in the Democrat states where they're gerrymandering
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until kingdom come. But Obama's really upset. And so he says, Republicans can't win on their policies,
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so they're trying to dodge accountability by rewriting the rules. These lawmakers are going
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out of their way to silence the will of the people and deliberately undermine our democracy,
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blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. He's saying that Republicans are redistricting,
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which Democrats are also doing. And they're doing in a far more egregious way, but whatever.
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He's saying Republicans can't win on their policies.
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I have a little poll here. This is a poll from Reuters Ipsos, so it's not a right-wing poll.
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This poll was just conducted, over 1,000 U.S. adults, September 19th through the 21st, 2025.
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Just go down the list. Which party has a better plan? Crime. 40% say Republicans, 20% say Democrats.
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Blown out of the water. Two to one Republicans. Immigration. 40% Republicans, 22% Democrats.
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Republicans leading Democrats. Almost two to one on immigration. Crime and immigration. Two top
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political issues. Foreign conflicts. Oh, we'll hear Republicans have been pretty weak on foreign
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conflicts. And oh, nope. 35% to Democrats, 23%. U.S. economy. U.S. economy, that ranks right up there
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at the top of the list too. Republicans, 34%. Democrats, 24%. Trouncing the Democrats there as well.
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How about gun control? Gun control is an issue that sometimes the Democrats
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edge the Republicans out on, sometimes by a lot. Nope. Republicans, 32%. Democrats, 28%. I should
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say there's a margin of error of three points here, but Republicans are winning even outside the margin
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of error. Political extremism. Ooh, Democrats have an advantage here, right? They always blame the far
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right, which they say commits three quarters of the political violence when you don't count any of the
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left-wing political violence. So how are they? Oh, nope. That's the Republicans too. 30% to the Democrats,
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that's 26%. So also outside the margin of error. How about, now this is, this one floored me.
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Respect for democracy. This is one of those abstract issues that uses all these kind of slogans that the
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Democrats are going to, they're going to win on, right? And Democrat, Democrat, democracy, it's right
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there in the brand. 29% Republican, 31% Democrat. So the Democrats did kind of edge it out
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within the margin of error. This is the issue, the abstract ideological issue that the Democrats went on.
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It's a tie. It's a statistical tie. How about corruption? Oh, that awful, terribly corrupt. Nope, Republicans win
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that, 27% to 21%. Healthcare? Okay, Democrats picked up healthcare, 34% to 25%. Because Democrats promise free
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healthcare to everyone. And then they don't really deliver very well on healthcare, but they promise
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it. Okay, women's rights. So like killing babies in the womb. Yeah, Democrats are winning on killing
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babies in the room. And environment, you know, the sun monster killing us all with its evil rays within
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10 years ago or whatever AOC said. Yeah, Democrats are winning there too. So on, healthcare is the only
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real issue that the Democrats still have an advantage on. Women's rights is just a modern euphemism for
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killing babies. So of course, Democrats are going to win there. The environment was just
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really a term to point to the sun monster, another leftist ideology, climate change. So, okay, they win
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there. Respect for democracy. Okay, it's a tie. Every other issue. And more importantly, every issue
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that matters. Believe it or not, murdering babies does not rank at the top of the list for most voters.
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Climate change does not rank at the top of the list for most voters. Respect for democracy,
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which is a tie, does not rank it. You know what ranks at the top of the list? Crime,
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immigration, the economy, foreign affair, all these foreign wars at least. All of those things
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rank toward the top of the list. Republicans dominating on each of them. But it's not just
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the Reuters-Ipsos poll. There's another poll just came out from Quinnipiac. Quinnipiac, not a right-wing
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poll. 30% of voters nationwide say they have a favorable opinion of the Democrat Party.
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This is, according to the survey's press release, this is the lowest favorability rating for the
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Democratic Party since the Quinnipiac University poll began asking voters this question in 2008.
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On top of that, to put this in perspective, we are now well into Trump's first year.
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We are now looking ahead to the midterms, the midterms where typically the party out of the
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White House crushes. And the Democrats are underwater on basically everything. And they've
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got their worst unfavorability rating since Quinnipiac started taking this poll. This is a catastrophe
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for Democrats. A catastrophe. I've never seen anything like it.
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And Barack Obama has the temerity or the despair, I guess, the desperation to say,
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well, these Republicans can't win on the issues. They can't win. They're winning on every issue,
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just about, all the ones that matter. And you know how else you can tell
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the Republicans are running on the issues? The Democrats are killing us. That's how you can tell.
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You know how you could tell Trump was going to win the election in 2024?
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Because the left kept trying to kill him. They wouldn't try to murder him if they could just
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beat him at the ballot box. On top of the assassination attempts, they wouldn't have tried
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to throw him in prison had they thought they could beat him at the ballot box. They wouldn't
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have tried to kick him off the ballot if they thought they could beat him at the ballot box.
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All of the other attacks, the leftist attacks that even the Atlantic magazine is pointing out
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are coming from the left. The assassination of Charlie. If they thought they could beat him
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fair and square in a debate, if they thought that he wasn't effective, if they thought he wasn't
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persuading people, if they thought he wasn't shifting the youth vote 10 percentage points to the right
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in 2024, they wouldn't have killed him. That's how you can tell. And the more that the Democrats
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double down on this awful behavior, the more those numbers are going to keep shifting. Now,
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there's a little caveat here for the Republicans. Voters trust the Republicans right now much more
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than the Democrats on crime, on immigration, on foreign conflicts, on the economy, so on.
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That means Republicans have to deliver. Not just press releases, not just commemorations,
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not just good clips on Twitter. They need to round up criminals and seriously prosecute them.
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They need to deport a lot of illegal aliens. And they've done a pretty good job on it. In fact,
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I think a lot of Trump's critics, including on the right, on immigration, are really being dishonest
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because the Trump roundup efforts have been pretty good, all things considered. But even just
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the self-deportations that have turned up in multiple surveys now. What was it? A month ago,
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by last count, 1.6 million illegal aliens left the country voluntarily. That's pretty good.
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Got to keep it up. Got to keep the economy strong. So obviously, the Republicans still have
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their work cut out for them. But as of now, the Republicans, by all historical precedent,
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should get blown out of the water in the midterms. Doesn't look like that's going to happen.
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And Obama just doubles down on the Ls. Obama just came out and he attacked Trump for spreading
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supposed medical misinformation on the link between medications and autism.
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So we have the spectacle of my successor in the Oval Office making broad claims around certain drugs
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and autism that have been continuously disproved. And the degree to which
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that undermines public health, the degree to which that can do harm to women
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who are pregnant, the degree to which that creates anxiety for parents who do have
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Okay, so what's he talking? He's talking about Trump and RFK coming out and saying
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that they've discovered a link between acetaminophen, Tylenol, in the womb, and autism.
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He said these have been repeatedly disproven. It's causing real harm to women by saying
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they're the link between Tylenol and autism. Repeatedly disproven scientific misinformation.
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Is that so? Because I got, here we go, here's a tweet from 2020, sorry, 2013, citing an article
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from Reuters, too much Tylenol in pregnancy could affect development. It says acetaminophen use in
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pregnancy linked to children's developmental delays. That comes from the ACOG. That is the
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American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Repeatedly disproven. That's Trump's, that's just
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what Trump said. Trump said the thing that the ACOG said. The ACOG linking to an article
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in Reuters. Same thing that Reuters said. How about Trump saying the same thing that
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Johns Hopkins University said? Taking Tylenol during pregnancy associated with elevated risk
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for autism and ADHD. Same thing that Harvard University School of Public Health said. Using
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acetaminophen during pregnancy may increase children's autism and ADHD risk. Same thing that
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Mount Sinai said. Same thing. The Columbia University said. Same thing, same thing, same
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thing. Here you go. There's more. What are you talking about repeatedly disproven? It's been
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repeatedly proven. And now the Department of Health and Human Services is coming out. And
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now the White House is coming out. Forget about these guys. Tylenol admitted it. Tylenol.
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March 7th, 2017. We actually don't recommend using any of our products while pregnant.
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He, you know, and there's misinformation saying that you pregnant women maybe shouldn't be taking
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Tylenol. This is very harmful to pregnant women. No, Tylenol said, pray pregnant women. Don't take
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our products. Barack Obama graduated from Harvard. Right. Your, your alma mater, but two of your alma
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maters, actually, he started out at that college on the West Coast, but then he transferred into
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Columbia and then Harvard for graduate school. Both Harvard and Columbia say acetaminophen is linked
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to autism. So you're denying your own, your own sources of academic credentials. Why? How? How
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you got to listen to me. I went to Columbia and Harvard. By the way, I'm going to be speaking at
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Harvard. I'm giving a speech at Harvard on Thursday, next Thursday. Get excited for that.
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See you there. How could he be that dense? I'll tell you why. Because Trump is anti-science.
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Full stop. That's just, that is the narrative. That is the premise from which Barack Obama
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and the liberal media and the medical institutions are operating. They haven't proven that.
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There's no evidence of that, but that is the premise. Trump is anti-science.
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So if Trump says something, the opposite has to be the scientific view.
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So you see how crazy this works, how crazily this works, rather. You can have the American
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College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists come out and say, there is a link between acetaminophen
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and autism. Trump will say, hey, the ACOG says there's a link between acetaminophen and autism.
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The ACOG will then change its view. It has to, because Trump said it.
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The group says A, Trump says A, the group says not A. That's how it works. That's the rule of thumb.
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This is how the libs could change their opinion on COVID measures and COVID vaccines based on Trump
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and based on Trump's supporters. Anything he says must be anti-science.
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And this plays into the caricature they believe of Trump. They think that Trump is the caricature
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that they've invented, which is that he's just a bumbling, babbling buffoon.
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Never mind that he's reached the very heights of success in like four industries, right?
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In real estate, in television, network television, top on network television,
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television, in luxury brands, and oh, in politics. The first time he earnestly ran for president,
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first time he earnestly ran for any public office, he won the highest office in the world
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and then became the only one of two presidents in American history to serve non-consecutive terms.
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But he's just a babbling idiot. He has to be. And so because they believe that,
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they end up contradicting themselves. Okay, that's fine. It's funny though, because people think
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Barack Obama, he's this clubbable, erudite, literate, oh boy, oh boy, he went to all the
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fancy schools. He looks ridiculous. He looks ridiculous, but they all do. Okay. Speaking of
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Trump's political strengths, love this one. So we're looking down the barrel at the midterms.
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Before the midterms though, there's a fight happening in Congress right now, and it's a fight
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over government funding. And it looks like we're going to have a government shutdown by October 1st.
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So the Democrats are obstructing spending. And so they're, they're headed for a shutdown. Okay.
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Republicans tend to be blamed by, for government shutdowns. That's the conventional wisdom. So
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the Democrats are saying, all right, we're going to shut down the government. Republicans are going
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to take the blame and, and that's going to help us. Okay. Trump loves a good game of chicken and Trump
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says, okay, you want to shut down the government? That's fine. Not only will we
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furlough federal employees during the shutdown, which is to say, we'll temporarily send them home
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from work. And then whenever we resolve the shutdown, we'll, and we'll bring them back and
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we'll probably give them back pay. And it's a little more expensive, but whatever. The White
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House is saying that they will respond to the government shutdown by permanently firing a bunch
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of the federal workforce. It's a reduction in force plan that was just sent out to the federal
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agencies. If Congress won't pass the spending bill by October 1st, Trump's reaction, in other words,
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is make my day, go ahead, go ahead, make my day. And I think it's going to work. I think it's going
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to work because right now the Democrats have nothing. They have nothing. America, most Americans blame
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them. Democrats have the highest unfavorability rating they've ever had. Democrats are not trusted
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on pretty much any issue. So go ahead, screw it up some more. What? You think you have the wind at
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your sails? You lost the whole government last November. You lost the whole government last November.
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Republicans were given by the voters, a unified government, and they already had the Supreme
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Court because of previous elections. And you would think that your numbers would increase
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over the ensuing eight, nine months. They've gotten worse. So Trump's saying you want to shut down the
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government? Awesome. You've now made it easier for me to do one of the things I promised to the voters
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that I would do. Namely, fire you guys working in the federal bureaucracy. So cool. Can't wait.
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It's awesome. Okay. See ya. It gets back to what Trump said to Zelensky in the Oval Office. He said,
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you don't have the cards. What are you doing? You don't have any cards. You have nothing.
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You are so desperate right now that you're murdering innocent non-office holders, just innocent
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civilians who are successfully bringing even more voters over to the American right. And your
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terrorism is being acknowledged even by some on your own side. And your terrorism is making you look
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even worse. So go ahead. Go ahead and make my day. Speaking of terrorism that seems to be coming
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from the left, we have some new information. This is coming out from the FBI, Kash Patel posting this.
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What do we find out now? We know that the shooter showed up to the ICE facility. He was on an adjacent
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rooftop using a rifle to shoot. It hearkened back to the assassination of Charlie Kirk just a couple of
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weeks ago. Uh, also because we know that the shooter wrote anti-ICE. So wrote something on the
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bullets, much like in the assassination of Charlie Kirk from the radical leftist. And in this case,
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he wrote anti-ICE. What else do we know? We know that the, the perp, the guy who did it downloaded a
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document titled Dallas County Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Management containing a list
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of DHS facilities. So he was, he was obviously targeting DHS. He conducted multiple searches of
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ballistics and the Charlie Kirk shot video between, uh, September 23rd and 24th. So you might be tempted
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to say, well, everyone saw that horrific video. Yeah, but he was looking at it right before he levied
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this attack and he was looking up ballistics. We know that between August 19th and 24th, he searched
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apps that track the presence of ICE agents. Hold on, record scratch, freeze frame. There are apps
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that track the presence of ICE agents. Those need to be taken off the app stores immediately. And if
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they're not taken off of the app stores, then the government needs to bring the full weight of its
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power on Apple and on Google for hosting those apps, which encourage forms of terrorism.
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One of the handwritten notes recovered from this, this shooter reads quote, hopefully this will give
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ICE agents real terror to think, is there a sniper with AP rounds on that roof? So I'm not even coming
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to a firm conclusion on who this guy is and what his motives are. All of the evidence says that he
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was a leftist. Ken Klippenstein has an article about this, which actually argues that he didn't
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have a strong political motive either way and talks to friends and say, oh, he was, he was just kind of
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ironic or he was just, I don't know, he was, he was just in it for the lulls or whatever, kind of
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downplaying his political motives. But even they say, no, but he didn't like Trump, you know, and
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there was some sincerity even when he was joking around. And one of his video game usernames was
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hashtag impeachment. So all of the evidence that we have from the ICE shooting, all of it, without
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exception. We all, we also know he voted in a Democrat primary in 2020. So all of the evidence
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that we have says that he was on the left. How did MSNBC cover it? We'll get to that in one
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Today. Turning to very, very bad journalism. After all of this information has been coming out
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about the shooter at the ICE facility, here's how MSNBC covered it.
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You have Director Patel putting out information that is clearly immediately trying to assign blame.
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And I don't think we know enough, and I don't think the FBI quite knows enough yet,
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what the motivation is here. Does it look like there may be a political angle to this
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based on the recovered evidence? For sure. Do I think there's trends that are moving in that
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direction that we could see more violence emerging from the different sides of the political spectrum?
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Absolutely. But we have not seen in this case yet, and even not in the Charlie Kirk assassination,
00:25:45.040
I was simply going to laugh until that last line. When he says, well, we just really don't,
00:25:49.840
we don't see any motives here. It's not clear what the shooter's politics are. Well, I don't know,
00:25:54.480
he shot up an ICE facility, and he wrote anti-ICE on there, and his screen name was hashtag
00:25:58.420
impeachment, and he voted in the Democrat primary. And I think we can deduce his politics. But I'm less
00:26:06.280
inclined to laugh because he said the same thing about the Charlie Kirk shooter. Charlie Kirk shooter,
00:26:11.300
who confessed his motives, reportedly, who wrote far left-wing slogans on the bullets that he used
00:26:20.380
to murder Charlie, who murdered Charlie in the first place, one of the most prominent right-wingers
00:26:23.820
in the country, and who confessed his ideological motives, reportedly, allegedly, to his trans-furry
00:26:31.680
boyfriend. And this guy, that wasn't just some random bum. He was a particular bum. He's not just
00:26:38.960
a random bum. He's MSNBC's security and intelligence analyst, Christopher O'Leary,
00:26:45.200
saying something so powerfully dumb that it is a wonder. And I have a low expectation of MSNBC,
00:26:57.220
of course, as do we all. But that's shocking even to me. Christopher O'Leary, MSNBC. Christopher O'Leary
00:27:06.120
is either completely ignorant, completely like wind whistling through his ears, does not have synapses
00:27:17.060
firing, has not read anything, might not have functioning senses with which to perceive the world
00:27:24.560
from which we can form conceptions and rational thought. Either completely devoid of that,
00:27:32.460
or he's a liar. And I think the charitable conclusion is that he's a liar. I think that's
00:27:40.820
the nicest thing I can say about him in this context. But people will believe it. This is why
00:27:49.300
matters. This is why we can't just totally laugh at this. I know people who believe that. I know
00:27:56.340
people who watch the news, like that kind of news, the fake news, who believe that, who are
00:28:03.100
professionals, who go to jobs, who pay their rent and their mortgage, who are not just vagrants living
00:28:12.980
on the street. They're not lunatics in padded cells. They're people who, by all appearances,
00:28:17.760
can get along in polite society. And they believe that complete nonsense because a guy in a suit and
00:28:25.060
a tie lied to them on television. That's a big problem. That's a big, it's, I've never seen a
00:28:34.140
clearer example of it. That's a big, big problem. And they're, I'm not saying that the government should
00:28:40.120
go in and shut it down. If we're talking about some random cable channel, broadcast television
00:28:44.140
is a different story. But I'm not, I'm not saying that. I'm just saying there has to be some consequence
00:28:49.240
to that. These, these people should be shunned from the political conversation, I suppose.
00:28:59.520
The, the, that guy has no place in a political conversation.
00:29:03.360
He, he either does not possess the requisite knowledge or is a fraud, a, a, a peddler of
00:29:13.560
fraud, a counselor of fraud, as Dante would, would call Ulysses in the divine comedy. No good. So
00:29:22.240
these people are so fringed out that, that it's being reflected in polls, like quite clearly in polls.
00:29:28.020
Meanwhile, Trump claims the center. And this story really, really got me. Trump on a prominent
00:29:36.720
issue that we haven't talked about for a couple of weeks is asked a question about the Israel-Palestine
00:29:40.820
conflict and specifically whether or not he's going to allow Israel to annex the West Bank, not Gaza,
00:29:48.140
not parts of Southern Syria, not all the other places that Israel has, has taken or taken back,
00:29:52.400
but the West Bank, where Israel has encouraged settlements and which, which some have suggested
00:29:58.780
Israel would annex outright. Here's his answer.
00:30:02.100
Did you promise leaders this week that you would not allow Israel to annex the West Bank? Is that
00:30:06.500
something that you said? I will not allow Israel to annex the West Bank. No, I will not allow it.
00:30:11.640
It's not going to happen. Did you speak with Netanyahu about this directly? Yeah, but I'm not going to
00:30:15.180
allow it, whether I spoke to him or not. I did, but I'm not allowing Israel to annex the West Bank.
00:30:20.300
There's been enough. It's time to stop now, okay? Yes, please.
00:30:26.140
What's so amazing about Trump's reaction is what he's just articulated is the least popular view
00:30:33.600
on the Israel-Palestine conflict. And it happens to be precisely my view that I have articulated for
00:30:40.040
a very long time at this point, years at this point. Namely, you've got two sides. The Israel at
00:30:50.020
all costs, Zionism, do or die side, and the people who stub their toes in the morning and think it's
00:30:55.140
some dastardly Jew in Tel Aviv. Those tend to be the two sides. The one side that says Israel is the
00:31:02.400
most moral nation ever, the most moral army that's never done anything wrong, that's not sus at all,
00:31:07.360
and that needs to conquer every nation around it. Or the side that somehow manages to connect
00:31:14.300
every problem that has ever existed in the history of the world to the nation state of Israel founded
00:31:19.180
in 1948. And my view is, I broadly support Israel. I recognize that we have had roughly 1400 years of
00:31:29.200
conflict with political Islam. Broadly support Israel. But I've got some questions about Israel's
00:31:37.920
misconduct. And I don't think that Israel's national interest and the American national
00:31:43.180
interest are synonymous on every issue. And I think that in some cases, the state of Israel needs to be
00:31:47.660
restrained. It's the least popular view, because you get hit from both sides all the time. But that's
00:31:53.800
my view, and it happens to be correct. And it's the president's view as well. And why does this matter,
00:31:59.280
even beyond the Israel-Palestine conflict? Because it means that Trump has truly staked out
00:32:06.240
the center of American politics. He is the center now. Imagine telling someone that 10 years ago.
00:32:12.820
Imagine telling someone in either party that 10 years ago, when Trump was seen as this radical,
00:32:18.040
extreme, fringe, crazy clown show. And then he's the center. He's the norm. He's the middle.
00:32:30.080
The further you are from Trump's position on at least many or most issues, I guess,
00:32:36.240
the further you are to the fringes. That's an amazing political accomplishment. It's very good
00:32:41.740
for the country. Speaking of foreign affairs, there's just one story I have to get to.
00:32:47.720
China has just been caught digitally altering a film to turn a gay couple straight.
00:32:54.440
I love this. This story is from The Guardian, I think. Yeah, yeah. Horror film digitally altered
00:33:01.280
in China to make a gay couple straight. And you can see right here, here's the original. It's just
00:33:06.040
a couple of fellas. And then here, they turn the shorter fella into a chick. Actually, not a bad
00:33:11.640
looking lady. And so this was caught. It's a movie called Together, starring Dave Franco and Alison
00:33:19.200
Brie, released into certain theaters in China on September 12th. And in this one scene where
00:33:26.100
the Chinese concluded that they're, you know, it was a little too lavender. They just changed it and
00:33:33.860
made it a chick. And this is probably not great for art in the sense that you don't want to ex
00:33:41.760
post-facto alter someone else's art to fit your own narrative. But broadly speaking,
00:33:48.660
I'm here for it. I'm here for it. Do people still say based? Based is like old now, right? It's
00:33:56.480
kind of defunct lingo. But is that, if we could still say it, is that, how do you say based in
00:34:01.000
Mandarin? Or Cheshuan? I don't, this is, it's not, hear me out. Hear me out. Before we had
00:34:14.700
all this craziness in movies, we had something called the Hays Code. Okay, the Hays Code existed
00:34:19.040
from 1934 to 1968 in the United States. And it was self-censorship. It was a set of standards
00:34:25.500
that the film industry imposed upon itself. It was promoted by Catholics, by the way. It was a
00:34:30.820
largely a Catholic initiative, but it spread throughout the film industry.
00:34:36.160
The films that were created during the Hays Code were the best films ever made.
00:34:43.600
There were some good films that were made afterward, but year for year, the best films ever made were
00:34:50.420
made during the Hays Code with self-censorship. Citizen Kane, Wizard of Oz, Gone with the Wind,
00:34:58.840
Casablanca, Streetcar Named Desire, like the greatest movies ever made. I guess The Godfather
00:35:04.920
came later. The Godfather and me, myself, and Irene came later. But other than those two,
00:35:08.420
the greatest movies ever made were made during this period of self-censorship. There was a period
00:35:12.360
in Hollywood before the Hays Code. The movies that were made then were freaky, pervy trash as well.
00:35:17.620
Movies like that, movies like freaks. You know, there's that scene that kind of goes around sometimes
00:35:20.980
where it's a bunch of, like, deformed people and midgets and, like, whores and things. And it's a
00:35:27.820
oogle-goggle, oogle-goggle. One of us is freaky. It's really weird, freaky stuff. And it's not high
00:35:32.680
art. So I'm not saying that what China's doing here, what removing the LGBT LMNOP stuff after the
00:35:40.460
fact is the best idea. That does compromise artistic integrity. But it's probably the second best idea.
00:35:46.220
The best idea would be to reestablish standards in movies, ideally self-imposed standards.
00:35:53.520
The libs say we can't do that because that would limit artistic expression or whatever.
00:35:57.960
In reality, though, it would make the art better.
00:36:02.960
Who writes better poetry? The weirdos who show up to slam poetry slams and just kind of freestyle rap,
00:36:12.420
or Shakespeare with rhyme and meter. Which kind of poetry is better?
00:36:18.840
If you're being honest, every single person would say the poetry with limits. Limits are what make the art.
00:36:25.000
It's true throughout our lives. So anyway, two cheers for China. Two cheers for China on the movie.
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I feel that at Charlie's memorial also indicated a shift in the Republican Party by introducing Christianity into politics again.
00:38:38.500
I hope we see the party shift from focusing so heavily on fiscal policy, but how to integrate Christian charity as well.
00:38:46.580
This brings me to my question, which is, what is the government's role for helping the elderly and disabled?
00:38:52.880
I am particularly interested in this because I have become the mother of a son with severe cerebral palsy.
00:38:59.940
And in my state of Arizona, services for disabled people, especially children, continues to be cut, using money as the excuse.
00:39:07.580
I feel that as Christians, isn't it our call to help the least of these?
00:39:11.760
What is the conservative position on supporting people with disabilities?
00:39:18.500
Well, the conservative position is different from the libertarian position.
00:39:22.880
And so the two get conflated because of the conservative libertarian alliance after World War II that still continues to exist.
00:39:30.440
And that I'm not totally opposed to because there just aren't that many conservatives and there certainly aren't that many libertarians.
00:39:35.220
So they decided as a prudential matter to team up.
00:39:38.060
Sometimes that has good results, sometimes weaker results.
00:39:40.340
But the conservative response is, yes, of course.
00:39:44.660
Of course we have a responsibility in political community to take care of people who cannot take care of themselves.
00:39:50.360
The only question then is, not out of principle, but out of prudence, how is that best done?
00:39:58.820
And here I think the conservative answer is through subsidiarity.
00:40:02.380
So it is better to take care of these people at the most local level possible.
00:40:06.320
But this does not preclude some kind of national program.
00:40:10.460
It's just that a national program will work better if the charity and the care for these people disabled or elderly or frail in some other way is taking care of at more local levels.
00:40:23.720
At the township level, the county, state, then federal government level.
00:40:28.200
But yes, the conservative response is, in principle and in practice, we have a responsibility to take care of these people.
00:40:39.260
The libertarian response would be that the government absolutely does not have a responsibility and should not take care of these people.
00:40:45.200
Because we need to spur the invisible hand of the free market to take care of these people through charity that will be crowded out if the government does anything.
00:40:55.160
But the invisible hand is providence for atheists.
00:40:59.000
The invisible hand is actually, as Adam Smith describes it, is not all that far off from providence.
00:41:05.400
Adam Smith is writing in a more clearly religious way than the secular people today who have made an idol out of free markets and individualism.
00:41:16.360
I'm a college student and engaged to my high school sweetheart of four years, and I was raised Baptist.
00:41:21.920
Recently, I've done research into early church history to be better equipped to defend my faith.
00:41:26.720
And in doing so, I've unexpectedly realized that all roads might just lead to Rome.
00:41:31.660
I've brought this up in conversation with my fiancé and older and younger men in my church, and everyone is very weary about my interest in the Catholic Church.
00:41:41.440
Should I listen to the people I trust and avoid it or pursue this?
00:41:44.360
Obviously, if I were to convert, it could hinder my future marriage and relationships with my church friends.
00:41:50.260
However, my faith in Jesus gives me confidence that if I'm in search of the truth, I will find it.
00:41:58.880
A friend of mine, Joshua Charles, was quite ardently Protestant, and he decided he was going to read the church fathers, the early Christian writers, to prove that Catholicism was not biblical and was contrary to the spirit of the apostolic age and the early Christians.
00:42:17.880
He found out that his own religious practices were an aberration and deviated from early Christian practice.
00:42:26.700
And now he runs a group called Eternal Christendom, which is terrific.
00:42:29.380
So many such cases, just St. John Henry Newman made this point.
00:42:33.400
He was rather ardently anti-Catholic in many respects, and he has a line.
00:42:41.040
This is no offense intended to our many Protestant friends, but he said, to become deep in history is to cease to be Protestant.
00:42:47.280
So, again, I'm not saying that's what you're going to find.
00:42:51.280
I've got many friends and some family members who have remained Protestant, but that's what he found.
00:42:57.300
He was a Protestant, then he became a Catholic priest, and then he became a Catholic saint.
00:43:02.680
And I don't think anybody, anybody of good faith would tell you not to pursue the truth, right?
00:43:09.760
So, you're pursuing the truth as you see it, and you feel it's leading you across the Tiber to Rome.
00:43:16.120
You're worried it's going to mess up your future marriage.
00:43:18.660
You're going to be the head of your household, so I think you could probably persuade your wife.
00:43:22.720
As for some church friends, I hope it doesn't mess up your friendships with your old church.
00:43:33.540
Even if we try to maintain all of our friendships, that's just what happens.
00:43:36.740
So, I hope, you know, if they're going to ditch you over that, they probably weren't great friends in the first place.
00:43:47.280
I think you've already come to your conclusion, and maybe you just want a little encouragement in that, which I do encourage you.
00:43:55.200
I just graduated college, and I'm living in Utah.
00:43:57.680
My friends and I went to Charlie Kirk's event last week, and we were standing pretty close up.
00:44:03.400
Um, we were obviously pretty scarred and traumatized by that event.
00:44:08.320
And after a few days of grieving, I decided I don't want to be quiet anymore.
00:44:14.040
I want to be open and proud about my love for my country, about my politics, about my love for Jesus.
00:44:20.400
But now I feel like such a squish this week at work.
00:44:23.440
A trans co-worker tried to talk politics with me, and I just kind of brushed them off and left because I didn't want to get in a big, huge fight at work, create a toxic work environment, or get reported or anything.
00:44:36.920
But, yeah, I just feel like a squish for backing down.
00:44:38.780
I want to stand strong but also keep the peace at work.
00:44:45.900
Tough question because, first of all, I wouldn't be too hard on yourself.
00:44:48.900
You're processing a very serious trauma that was both a national trauma and, for you, a personal trauma.
00:44:52.960
So, you know, it's okay to freeze up a little bit.
00:44:58.580
Because you're dealing with a liberal co-worker, and the liberals are always flamboyant about their politics, and they never shut up about it in the workplace and all sorts of inappropriate places.
00:45:06.900
And on top of that, you're dealing with someone who's profoundly mentally ill and potentially violent.
00:45:16.340
I'm open about my politics when asked about it.
00:45:23.960
I mean, it's kind of, you know, I have a public platform, so it comes with the territory.
00:45:27.820
But before I had a public platform, I wouldn't volunteer at all the time.
00:45:30.520
But if it was asked of me, I would tell people the truth in a respectful way.
00:45:39.160
Before you go into it, I just want you to know, you could lose your job over that.
00:45:50.620
But if you've determined that you are, in fact, going to be open about your views and be honest,
00:45:56.700
then I do have a little bit of advice on this, which is don't try to go halfway.
00:46:03.000
Don't say, well, no, look, I kind of like, I mean, I'm a Republican, but not that kind of Republican.
00:46:07.300
I mean, I just, I think it's better to go all the way.
00:46:32.180
I find it's, one, it stops all kind of negotiation and all kind of awkwardness because you're just laying it on the table.
00:46:42.960
I've so concluded various things about the world.
00:46:57.960
But it's kind of like when you're, when you're trying to pick up a chick or something, you know, I guess it's not good advice for you because you're a lady.
00:47:02.640
But with a guy who wants to take out a girl, there's two ways you can do it.
00:47:09.200
Uh, I think you're, you're kind of, I like your shirt today, Shelly.
00:47:13.200
And can you, would you sometime like to go get a cup of coffee?
00:47:17.200
You know, and you're kind of caving into yourself.
00:47:19.480
Or you can have a little bit of that riz, you know, a little bit of that Mediterranean swag.
00:47:24.060
And you're going to say, Shelly, you are, I can't, I don't think I can live another day if we don't get coffee.
00:47:41.980
And I need coffee and you're here with me and we have to go do it now.
00:47:46.860
She can still say no, but it's just, you've got a little more confidence.
00:47:57.960
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I don't have any advice on all kinds of things.
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I really want to mean to have a book I am the dark side.